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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCThackeray, William Makepeace
Summary: The story of the amoral beauty Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to climb the social ladder, and her sentimental companion Amelia, who falls for a caddish soldier, presents a panoramic satire of Regency society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THAPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POEDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICScott, Walter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOAzuela, Mariano
Summary: "The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Mac©Ưas, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa's army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Azuela 2008Tolstoy, Leo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TolstGreene, Graham
Summary: An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREDickens, Charles
Summary: Presents a reprint of Dickens's 1843 novel depicting the greed and selfishness in England and America through the story of suspicious and misanthropic old Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICSwift, Jonathan
Summary: The unusual voyages of Englishman Lemuel Gulliver carry him to such strange locales as Lilliput, where the inhabitants are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a nation ruled by horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2010
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Summary: When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir to the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TWAAusten, Jane
Summary: Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSBronte, Emily
Summary: Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Summary: Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICMiller, Arthur
Summary: "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic de TocquevilleBell, Gertrude Lowthian
Summary: "A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century and the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I, Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, GERTRUDE BELSummary: Synopsis: An illuminating collection of work by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Covering nearly three centuries of religious development, this comprehensive anthology brings together writings from prominent Friends that illustrate the development of Quakerism, show the nature of Quaker spiritual life, discuss Quaker contributions to European and American civilization, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.609 HAMConfucius.
Summary: The classic collection of conversations and sayings by the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, containing his teachings on ethics, politics, and religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181 CONMiller, Arthur
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play MillerNatsume, Sōseki
Summary: "Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty, ' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATBellow, Saul.
Summary: A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003